“There are already detainees, we are transferring them to Caracas,” said Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello on his program ‘Con el mazo dando’, without providing further details, while stating that “there will be justice.”
Cabello said that “they know,” referring to the opposition, that when they “attack the electrical system” they are dealing “a cross-cutting blow,” because, in the event of a blackout, the water supply and the operation of hospitals are affected.
The accusation has been rejected by the anti-Chavez opposition, which has said that the “deficiency” of electricity, health and other services is due to the “laziness, corruption and incompetence” of the government.
Maduro speaks of a “heart attack” caused by “fascist currents”
Last Friday, August 30, President Nicolás Maduro said that the power outage was caused by a “heart attack” of the Guri system, the main power generation facility located in the state of Bolívar (south, bordering Brazil), perpetrated – he said – by “fascist currents” that “pretended to be the opposition.”
He said that they have “determined the mechanisms that were used” in the attack, but did not provide further details, since – he said – the investigation “is in full process” in order “to achieve justice in this case.”
The blackout affected most states, according to reports, and was the second in Venezuela after the one in March 2019, when a large part of the country was without electricity for four days, for which the government pointed the finger at the opposition and the United States and Colombia, led at the time by Donald Trump and Iván Duque, respectively.
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